Friday, January 7, 2005
Sandisk's New SD/USB Card: Weird or Wonderful?
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 02:00 AM
"We got our hands on this sweet new SD/USB card from Sandisk. Yeah, you got that right: it pulls double duty as a normal-looking SD card, but flip it over, pop off the cover, and it slips into any USB port just like that. We’re not sure why Sandisk hopes to cannibalize their own USB card reader market by putting everything into one package, but we are definitely, definitely not complaining. Think we can get them to do this with TransFlash or MiniSD?"
This is certainly interesting but that connector does looks a bit fragile though. It shows you just how small the memory footprint is when you can take up half a SD card are with a connector. And no, I don't see this happening with MiniSD. It's hard when the USB connector is larger than the storage media itself. :lol: So what's the verdict? Is this weird or wonderful and do you want one?
This is certainly interesting but that connector does looks a bit fragile though. It shows you just how small the memory footprint is when you can take up half a SD card are with a connector. And no, I don't see this happening with MiniSD. It's hard when the USB connector is larger than the storage media itself. :lol: So what's the verdict? Is this weird or wonderful and do you want one?
